A Sample of Cooperative Conservation Case Studies

Northeastern/Mid-Atlantic

Project Name:: Waste Solutions Forum
Location:: Northeastern/Mid-Atlantic: Virginia
Summary:: Waste Solutions Forum brought together key stakeholders to assemble an action plan for implementing environmentally and economically viable solutions for excess animal waste in the Shenandoah Valley.
Website:: www.agnr.umd.edu/users/waterqual/VAwaste.doc
Contact:: Kathy Holm
Coordinator, Shenandoah RC&D
U.S. Department of Agriculture
(540) 248-3321
kathy.holm@va.usda.gov

Project Name:: Forest For Every Classroom
Location:: Northeastern/Mid-Atlantic: Vermont
Summary:: A Forest For Every Classroom partnership created a stewardship program to build capacity in teachers. They learn about teaching place, forests, ecology, and using public lands as outdoor classroom.
Website:: www.nps.gov/mabi/mabi/education/forest.htm
Contact:: Kathleen Diehl
Partnership Coordinator

(802) 747-6709
kdiehl@fs.fed.us

Project Name:: Chesapeake Marshlands National Wildlife Refuge Complex Cooperative Volunteer Invasives Monitoring Project
Location:: Northeastern/Mid-Atlantic: Maryland
Summary:: This project is part of a national effort that involves the collaboration of local volunteers to identify and map invasive plant species. A foundation for an intense invasive management program.
Contact:: Rachel Cliche
Wildlife Biologist, Invasive Species Specialist
USFWS, Chesapeake Marshlands National Wildlife Refgue Complex
410-639-2108
Rachel_Cliche@fws.gov

Project Name:: Wind Road Farms
Location:: Northeastern/Mid-Atlantic: New York
Summary:: Adjacent to another protected property, this project protects historic agricultural lands, and a significant portion of an extensive wetland system.
Website:: www.saratogaplan.org
Contact:: Alane Ball Chinian
Executive Director
Saratoga PLAN
518-587-5554
alane@saratogaplan.org

Southeastern

Project Name:: Partners Help Farmers Get Funds to Address Resource Concerns
Location:: Southeastern: Puerto Rico
Summary:: Conservation partnership assisted coffee farmers to adopt new conservation technology in the Coffee Zone, Humid Upland Watersheds in Puerto Rico.
Contact:: Miguel F. Monroig
Coffee Specialist
Cooperative Extension Service
787-834-4590
m_monroig@seam.uprm.edu

Midwest/Northern High Plains

Project Name:: Baraboo River Cooperative Restoration
Location:: Midwest/Northern High Plains: Wisconsin
Summary:: Partners worked together to remove four aged, unsafe, and uneconomical dams that blocked fish movement, damaged water quality, and endangered river users on the 128 mile Baraboo River mainstem.
Website:: www.sandcounty.net/programs/pioneering_solutions/strategic_approach/
Contact:: John W. Laub
Director, River/Floodplain Program
Sand County Foundation
(715) 588-3721
jwlaub@direcway.com

Project Name:: Joliet Army Ammunition Plant
Location:: Midwest/Northern High Plains: Illinois
Summary:: Private, county, state, and federal entities implement the Joliet Arsenal Citizens Planning Commission’s balanced redevelopment plan for the closed 23,000-acre arsenal.
Website:: aec.army.mil/usaec/cleanup/aic-il-02.html
Contact:: Jerry Heinrich

Sierra Club
815-476-6171
heinrich79@cs.com

Project Name:: Blackfoot Challenge
Location:: Midwest/Northern High Plains: Montana
Summary:: A diverse array of partners coalesced around watershed-wide, citizen-based efforts to protect a river famous for its scenic and recreational values.
Website:: www.blackfootchallenge.org
Contact:: Tina Bernd-Cohen
Executive Director
Blackfoot Challenge
406-793-3900
tina@blackfootchallenge.org

Project Name:: Tern and Plover Conservation Partnership
Location:: Midwest/Northern High Plains: Nebraska
Summary:: Established in 1999, this Partnership protects river birds, prevents or resolves bird-industry conflicts, and educates and involves local communities.
Website:: www.ternandplover.unl.edu
Contact:: Renae Held
Program Coordinator
Tern and Plover Conservation Partnership
402-472-8878
rheld3@unl.edu

Project Name:: Upper Mississippi River Basin
Location:: Midwest/Northern High Plains: Wisconsin, Michigan, Minnesota, Missouri, Ohio, Indiana, Iowa, Illinois
Summary:: New drainage water management systems in the Midwest are improving water quality and wildlife habitat in the Mississippi River Basin.
Website:: www.admcoalition.com/
Contact:: Charlie Schafer
President
Agricultural Drainage Management Coalition
800-232-4742
charlie@agridrain.com

Project Name:: Thompson - Fisher
Location:: Midwest/Northern High Plains: Montana
Summary:: This project purchased a conservation easement to prevent subdivision and development on 142,000 acres of working forestland in the Thompson River and Fisher River valleys of northwestern Montana.
Website:: www.tpl.org
Contact:: Tom Sadler
Director of Program Development
Trust for Public Land
202-543-7552
tom.sadler@tpl.org

Project Name:: Bitterroot Ecosystem Management Research Project
Location:: Midwest/Northern High Plains: Montana
Summary:: BEMRP emphasizes the need to incorporate relevant research into knowledge about lands on landscape scales, focusing also on public participation and collaboration.
Contact:: Greg Jones
Project Leader
USDA Forest Service
406-542-4167
jgjones@fs.fed.us

Project Name:: Horizon Farms Agricultural Preservation
Location:: Midwest/Northern High Plains: Illinois
Summary:: Horizon’s 421 acres is a traditional horse farm. It is preserved by the McGinley family, Barrington Hills Conservation Trust, The Conservation Foundation, and Equestrian Land Conservation Resource.
Website:: www.bchtrust.org; www.elcr.org; www.theconservationfoundation.org
Contact:: Mary Bradford-White
President
Barrington Hills Conservation Trust
847-381-4291
MBBW0128@msn.com

South-Central/South-West

Project Name:: Jemez Mountains Forest/Fire Restoration Project
Location:: South-Central/South-West: New Mexico
Summary:: The aim of this collaborative project is to restore forest health and fire regimes in the Jemez Mountains using science-based assessment, planning and management.
Website:: nmconservation.org
Contact:: Anne Bradley
Fire Initiative Manager
The Nature Conservancy
505-988-3867
abradley@tnc.org

Project Name:: Public access management as an adaptive wildlife management tool
Location:: South-Central/South-West: Colorado
Summary:: Developing an adaptive management approach to understand and address impacts of motor vehicle traffic and growing elk population on declining Gunnison Sage Grouse population.
Contact:: Raymond D. Watts
Research Scientist
U. S. Geological Survey
970-226-9378
rwatts@usgs.gov

Far West

Project Name:: Lower Colorado River Multi-Species Conservation Program
Location:: Far West: Nevada, California, South-Central/South-West: Arizona
Summary:: This innovative project is the largest and longest-term major river system habitat restoration plan, designed to create habitat and protect listed and sensitive species.
Website:: www.usbr.gov/lc/lcrmscp
Contact:: Lorri Gray
Program Director
Bureau of Reclamation
702-293-8555
lgray@lc.usbr.gov

Project Name:: Herger-Feinstein Quincy Library Group Pilot Project
Location:: Far West: California
Summary:: The Quincy Library Group created a model for forest governance by making the community and community goals a central part of forest management.
Website:: www.qlg.org/
Contact:: Bill Coates
Chair
Quincy Library Group
530-283-4260
qlg@qlg.org

Project Name:: Columbia River Basin Restoration Collaboration
Location:: Far West: Washington, Oregon
Summary:: Strategies from 58 locally-developed subbasin plans will guide off-site federal hydropower mitigation funding to protect and restore fish and wildlife.
Contact:: Doug Marker
Fish and Wildlife Division Director
Northwest Power and Conservation Council
503-222-5161
dmarker@nwcouncil.org

Project Name:: Wallowa Resources
Location:: Far West: Oregon
Summary:: The group aims to promote community, forest and watershed health while creating family-wage jobs and business opportunities from natural resource stewardship.
Website:: www.wallowaresources.org
Contact:: Diane Snyder
Executive Director
Wallowa Resources
(541) 426-8053
info@wallowaresources.org

National

Project Name:: Center for Plant Conservation
Location:: National
Summary:: The cooperative CPC network conserves and restores the rare native plants of the U.S. CPC maintains the National Collection of Endangered Plants, more than 600 of the nation's most imperiled flora.
Website:: www.centerforplantconservation.org
Contact:: Mark F. Barnett
Communications Coordinator
Center for Plant Conservation
314.577.9541
mark.barnett@mobot.org

Current Conservation Programs